In May, a woman in Kansas sued Chaturbate, claiming that it was the site’s fault that her teenage son found her old laptop unlocked in a closet and used it to access porn without age verification in place.
Sounds like a parenting problem to me, but go ahead and blame porn. People like this should have to pay the legal fees of the defendants. Would anti-slapp (or whatever it’s called) apply here?
The case you’ve quoted is not the same one as the focus of the article.
Not only that, most of the article is behind a paywall
This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support
But it is from the article and therefore relevant.
It might be slightly relevant but that doesn’t mean that the way you posted it wasn’t disingenuous.
The fuck it was disingenuous. It’s the part of the article on which I had commentary. That it wasn’t the main focus does not say anything about my motivation to criticize people having the wrong take / solution.
Hmm, you’re right. I suppose disingenuous was the wrong word for me to use and for that I apologize. It just seems a little strange to me to title your post about one thing, but then in the body all you reference is an off handed mention the article makes about something that is barely tangentially related to the article. I don’t know what to call it, but I guess technically you weren’t disingenuous.
Edit: Perhaps click baiting is the correct term to use here.
No, it wasn’t clickbait because the article title isn’t clickbait. I just happened to have an opinion on a section that wasn’t in direct support of the title. I can call out a lack of proper attribution to the problem without the thrust of the article being inaccurate or deceptive. I can see why you take umbrage with it, but I think you’re chasing something that isn’t there. I just commented on a farcical take.
You’re right. I’m sorry, I had just woken up when I posted that and I think I may have woken up on the wrong side of the bed lol. Have a great day.
We all have those days. No offense taken. Cheers!
“Neal Barber, who was hired by Bayside Support Services and Multi Media LLC—the parent company of Chaturbate—in 2020”
Holy crap, moderators get PAID??!?!?
Not stream moderators, but the actual site moderators.
They don’t do it for free…?
People like this should have to pay the legal fees of the defendants.
iirc, in the US at least, you can sue the people suing you to recomp lawyer fees.
Here’s the complete article: https://archive.ph/b2ZTb
Well you kinda knew what you were getting into so I have no sympathy. How would you not expect to see fucked up shit? Sweet summer child.
I think it’s naive to believe that people aren’t naive.
There’s a difference between being naive and a dumbass. The website has been known for problems for the entire existence of it. This guy’s a dumbass. If he didn’t wanna see gore and CP he shouldn’t of been a porn site mod…
I mean, by that same logic, we shouldn’t offer mental health counseling to first responders because they knew what they were getting into when they signed up for it. You can say there’s a difference between naiveté and stupidity, but it’s entirely arbitrary.
Idk man, I feel like you’re really missing the point here. If you’re going to hire people to do a job that involves exposure to traumatic material, you need to provide resources for them to process and recover from it.
I had a friend who was a firefighter who 100% agreed with that. He said if you don’t want to see nasty shit like limbs torn apart in car accidents then go flip burgers.
If you’re going to hire people to do a job that involves exposure to traumatic material, you need to provide resources for them to process and recover from it.
I don’t agree. The person in question knew what they were getting int, if not they’d have left at the first incident and noped out. They’re just teying to make coin of this.
Well, I’ve been a paramedic for a long time, a paramedic instructor for half as long, and a firefighter longer than either of the other two. Your friend sounds like a pompous dipshit, and his attitude is the reason we keep killing ourselves.
The ones who think they’re coping just fine are usually taking it out on their body or their family, in my experience. If you are exposed to shit like that at work, it always catches up with you eventually. Some people last years, some last decades, and some last one call. It’s the nature of the work.
Which is why you should always provide those resources. It saves lives. I really don’t see anything to suggest that the plaintiff is lying about having PTSD or is just trying to make money; I think that’s just the social stigma of PTSD providing you with rationalizations for your own problematic beliefs.
